Before you begin writing your marketing resume, make sure that you really want to do this on your own. There are many professional resume writers and resume services you may want to hire to help you. Sometimes their expertise makes all the difference between getting and not getting that first interview.
If you decide to write your own resume, the best place to start is to analyze resume examples that utilize common resume formats. This will give you a good idea of the resume templates being used successfully today to land marketing jobs.
Next, look at marketing-related web sites and publications to help you choose the key words you need to emphasize in your resume so that scanning software used to identify strong job candidates won’t pass you by.
Now is your chance to put all of your marketing skills to work on your most important project--marketing yourself! Click on Marketing Resume Example for a sample of how one job candidate has organized her marketing resume. Print this resume or minimize the window so you can refer to it as we go through the review below.